A San Antonio councilwoman is facing criticism and condemnation among some of her constituents today after a former aide leaked an audio recording of the councilwoman going on an anti-gay rant during a staff meeting.

District 9 Councilwoman Elisa Chan called homosexuality "So disgusting!," and expressed that she believed homosexuality was a choice and that gay people should not be allowed to adopt children.

"By the way, this is politically incorrect," she tells her aides. "I don't think homosexual people should do adoption. They should be banned by adoption. You're going to confuse those kids. They should be banned.

"If you wanted to choose that lifestyle, we don't want to discriminate you, but you shouldn't affect the young people," she continues. "How terrible. ... They're going to be confused. You see two men go into a bedroom. You see two women kissing. Is that not confusing? It's confusing.

"It is actually, what you call, suggestive, for the kids to be corrupt, which is against nature. I'm telling you, anything that is against nature is not right."

James Stevens, the former aide who leaked the May 21 recording, told MySanAntonio.com, "My decision to record in the first place was that, during the staff meetings, we weren't really discussing the ordinance itself," Stevens told me. "We were really just talking about ways to appeal to the (voting) base and to get them fired up as opposed to analyzing the ordinance."

Chan "is only focused on her political future," he continued. "She's not focused on the policy itself and how it's going to really affect the city. We spent 80 percent of that meeting talking about how disgusting homosexuality is."